Wow. More serious news from the gallery closing world. BOX Gallery, at 1611 Paseo de Peralta, owned by Michelle Ouellette since 2000, and home to an emerging/contemporary program as well as hosting shows by some of …

The New York Times has reported that artist Mike Kelley was found dead Wednesday, age 57, at his home in South Pasadena, an apparent suicide over despair about a broken love affair. An American tragedy. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/02/arts/design/mike-kelley-influential-american-artist-dies-at-57.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries

While European Union leaders meet in Brussels today on bulwarking “a firewall” to the eurozone crisis, Skate’s Global Art Industry Art Investment Review released December 23 reports that the art market in 2012 will “decompose into …

I had a floor glue moment the other day at Aaron Payne Fine Art when I turned around and looked dead on at Homage (recto), a 5 x 4 foot canvas by Emil Bisttram, astonishingly painted …

Craig Anderson has resigned as executive director of the Center for Contemporary Arts in Santa Fe to “focus on curatorial pursuits.” In what appears to inject a note of managerial uncertainty for an organization that has …

Gregory Sholette writes: Things have changed since we witnessed the power-scrubbing of Zuccotti Park’s People’s Library[1] and the mulching of the encampment’s hundred-page opus of dissent written on corrugated scraps of cardboard and inverted pizza boxes, …

Podcast: Download Rulan Tangen is the artistic director and choreographer of Dancing Earth, the foremost contemporary indigenous dance company in the United States. The company is an “intertribal” one including dancers from 14 North American Nations …

Dwight Hackett Projects, one of Santa Fe’s leading contemporary exhibit galleries, will cease hosting public exhibitions this year, AdobeAirstream has learned. Asked to comment publicly on reports by artists and art professionals in Santa Fe that …

Yesterday at Fashion Institute of Technology Museum in New York closed a three-month run of Daphne Guinness: Fashion Icon, an exhibit of more than 100 couture garments and accessories becoming to the eponymous Daphne, heiress to …

McArthur Binion, a Chicago artist born in Mississippi, who came of age in Detroit as the eleventh child of a family that went from tenant farmers to factory workers in the automotive plants, is having his …